Tech

SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-16

Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-16 AI 4Q Salesforce

Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it “screwed us” after failing to “honor” a cyber EO (www.axios.com)
2026-6-16 Trump

A look at the proposals to share the AI wealth with the public: government stakes in AI labs, a tax on AI token use, a global capital income tax, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-15 Tax AI

Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27% (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-15

Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15

Source: Nvidia is marketing its first corporate bond sale since 2021, seeking to raise $20B+ across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 Nvidia

Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full Self-Driving safety data that traffic-safety researchers called misleading; Dutch RDW approved FSD in April (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 Tesla Sweden Netherlands

Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (www.wired.com)
2026-6-15

Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Canada's PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of “over-reliance on certain models”, and compares the risks to those that led to the 2008 financial crisis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 Canada Ban

Fox says it is acquiring Roku in a deal worth around $22B, including debt, giving it access to more than 100M streaming households (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15

Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China IPO AI Tencent Shanghai

The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-15 Facebook YouTube Snapchat Instagram Ban

Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (www.axios.com)
2026-6-15 Ban

UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and livestreaming platforms, aiming for regulation by the end of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 Ban

President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine (nypost.com)
2026-6-15 Trump France Tax

IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 AI

As “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 AI

A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China Alibaba

Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-15 Interview AI

Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax (sfstandard.com)
2026-6-15 Tax California

Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 AI Shanghai

Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 IPO

Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-language translation tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, raised $85M led by General Catalyst and Canaan (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-15

US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 Iran

Workers Spend As Much Time 'Botsitting' AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 AI

Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-6-15 Asset

Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-15 AI

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